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The origin of the domestic cat (Felis domestica) has sparked much speculation and scientific inquiry, yet definitive conclusions remain elusive. Long before the cat was embraced as a companion in homes around the world, it was revered by the ancient Egyptians, who tamed these enigmatic creatures and considered them sacred to the goddess Pasht. As domestic cats occasionally interbreed with local wild populations and traverse borders alongside humans, its likely that our beloved feline friends boast a diverse heritage. It’s fascinating to think that our charming English tabbies may even carry ...

Join AI correspondent Alexandra Reeves as she explores one of humanity's most fundamental questions: Why do we have rules at all? Drawing from diverse global perspectives without personal bias, Alexandra weaves together compelling stories from refugee camps to boardrooms, revealing how rules emerge naturally wherever humans gather. This thought-provoking episode examines the deep psychological need for structure, the eternal tension between individual desires and collective cooperation, and how rules serve as humanity's solution to living together in complex societies. From the simple act of ...

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.

In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived.

Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day.

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.

Why are we so mesmerized by gold? Why is it so revered and so valued? From the earliest times to the present day, humans have been attracted by this sun-coloured metal, sometimes worshipping it, always prizing it. Gold: The Metal that Rules the World investigates the history of this versatile element, examining what it is, how it came to be found on Earth and why it has played such an important part in human history.

A long-form documentary podcast exploring the full lifespan of the Ottoman world — from the political collapse of medieval Anatolia to the emergence of the Turkish Republic in the 1920s. This series traces how a small frontier group operating on the margins of collapsing empires grew into one of history’s longest-lasting imperial systems, and how that system adapted, struggled, and ultimately dissolved under the pressures of war, reform, nationalism, and modernity.

From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare. To fully understand these...

A look at how one man’s eccentricity influenced an iconic hero.

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline.

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The podcast discovers the origins and history of the Rule of Law.

Dive into the life of Oliver Cromwell, a figure whose legacy is intricately woven into the fabric of English history. This work is informed not only by the authors 1888 contribution to the Dictionary of National Biography but also by extensive research and newly uncovered documents such as the Clarke Papers. Unique battle plans drawn by Mr. B. V. Darbishire offer fresh perspectives that challenge commonly accepted views. While this series refrains from delving into the reasons behind these changes, it assures readers that the evidence has been meticulously scrutinized. For those eager to ...

You will now be engaging with a beautifully honest, commonly unique, analytical, athletic, understanding, peacefully competitive, seriously humorous, and humorously serious everyday man with relatable experience who speaks for himself. I have a soothing voice made for leading Yoga meditations, calming your riotous ass down, and Sunday night 90's R&B romance radio. I'd love to, and can attempt to speak for you if you'd like me to, but the statements spoken in this podcast are not "definitive generalizations". This podcast was requested by many. This podcast taps into what the Golden Rule was, ...

Join legal scholars Ryan Goss and Joshua Neoh as they discuss public law and legal theory in their podcast, Secondary Rules. In each episode, Ryan and Joshua bring to life exciting cases, puzzles, and controversies from Australia and around the world - exploring some of the biggest questions facing any legal system, and the legal questions that define our democracy. Ryan and Joshua are both associate professors at The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law in Canberra, teaching and researching Australian public law and legal theory. Whether you're a lawyer, a law student or just ...

Them’s the Rules is a society and culture podcast trying to wrap its head around the perplexities of human behavior, one rule at a time. Laced with existential mirth, each episode explores the historical, cultural, and philosophical context of a different rule or system of rules, from our social institutions to our New Year’s resolutions and everything in-between. By exposing the universal fault lines that run beneath everything we do, Them’s the Rules offers a new way of engaging in conversations around culture, politics, and society.

Lebanese Hezbollah goes to great lengths to publicize its overt, social, and political activities and to conceal its covert terrorist, militant, and criminal pursuits. In the words of one operative, Hezbollah's "Golden Rule" is this: The Less You Know, the Better.In this podcast, terrorism scholar Matthew Levitt sets out to break this rule by shining a bright spotlight on Hezbollah's global terrorist and criminal activities. Levitt has been following Lebanese Hezbollah for almost three decades in and out of government. He's written books, given expert testimony, and literally mapped ...

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8th at the age of 96 years old, months after her Platinum Jubilee, her 70th year as the Queen of the United Kingdom. As the world remembers the longest-reigning monarch, her eldest son Prince Charles is now KING Charles III. It’s the moment he was born destined for – and at 73, he’s been waiting a long time. As one era closes, another one begins. Can Prince Charles fill his mother’s shoes? Will the people accept him as king? Is there even a place for monarchy in our modern world? In Born to Rule, NBC’s Keir Simmons talks to journalists and royal ...

"Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation" is the title of a list known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States. Most of the rules have been traced to a French etiquette manual written in 1595, titled "Bienséance de la conversation entre les hommes". As a handwriting exercise circa 1745, Washington copied Francis Hawkins' translation which was published in England around 1640.